Abstract
Presently available laser sources can yield powers for which the ponderomotive energy of an electron can be equal to or even larger than the rest energy of an electron. Therefore it has become of interest to consider fundamental radiation-induced or assisted processes in such powerful laser fields. In the present work we consider laser-assisted electron-electron scattering in such a field, assuming that the laser beam has linear polarization. We investigate in detail the angular and polarization dependence of the differential cross sections of the laser-assisted nonlinear processes as a function of the order N of absorbed or emitted laser photons The present work is a continuation of our previous analysis of Compton scattering and of Mott scattering in a linearly polarized laser field [Phys. Rev. A 65, 022712 (2002); 65, 033408 (2002)].
- Received 5 August 2003
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.013404
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